Google doodles

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Jul 29, 2011
Medellin Flower Festival 2011








The Flowers Festival [Spanish: Feria de las Flores] is a festival that takes place in Medellín, Colombia. The festival is the most important social event for the city and includes a pageant, automobiles, a Paso Fino horse parade and many musical concerts.

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Jul 5, 2011
Venezuela Independence Day 2011










Flor de Mayo [Cattleya mossiae], the Venezuelan national flower.

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Jul 1, 2011
Doodle 4 Google 2011 - Poland by Martyna Króliszewska

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Jul 1, 2011
Cabotage and Turkish Maritime Festival







Cabotage Day [Turkish: Kabotaj Bayramı] also called Marine & Cabotage Feast is an annual festival related to merchant marine rights of Turkey held on 1 July in Turkey.

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Jun 30, 2011
Czeslaw Milosz's 100th Birthday





Czesław Miłosz was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, the Swedish Academy called Miłosz a writer who "voices man's exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts"

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Jun 26, 2011
Women's World Cup Opening

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Jun 16, 2011
Doodle 4 Google 2011 - Ghana Winner [ages 12 -14]

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Jun 15, 2011
Doodle 4 Google 2011 - Hungary Winner

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Jun 15, 2011
Total Lunar Eclipse. Live imagery provided by Slooh.






http://www.google.com/doodles/total-...vided-by-slooh



We’re always fascinated by the unique wonders of space and the world—what can we say, it’s the geek in us! Naturally, when we learned that part of the world will be treated to a rare 100-minute long total lunar eclipse starting at 11:20am PDT today, we were both excited and disappointed that this rare occasion wouldn’t be visible from our Mountain View campus like last year’s eclipse. We suspect we aren’t alone, so you’ll be glad to know that we’ve worked with Slooh Space Camera to let you experience the spectacle wherever you are in the world, in real time.

Slooh will host a live mission interface using Google App Engine that lets anyone not lucky enough to live in certain areas [South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia] take part in this rare astronomical event. It’s equipped with audio narrations from real-life astronomers so you can hear a firsthand, expert account of the event. You can also watch the live stream on the Google YouTube Channel or from the Sky layer in Google Earth [download this kml], while exploring the fascinating world that exists in our galaxy. Finally, those of you on the go can download the Slooh Space Camera Android app to view the images right on your phone.

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Jun 2, 2011
Republic Day Italy 2011

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May 25, 2011
Jordan Independence Day 2011

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May 24, 2011
Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture

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May 10, 2011
Zhang Daqian's 112th Birthday







Chang Dai-chien or Zhang Daqianwas one of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a guohua [traditionalist] painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. In addition, he is regarded as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century.

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May 9, 2011
76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves







Charles Roger Hargreaves [9 May 1935 – 11 September 1988] was an English author and illustrator of children's books, best remembered for the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, intended for young readers. The simple and humorous stories, with brightly coloured, boldly drawn illustrations, have been part of popular culture since 1971, with sales of over 85 million copies worldwide in 20 languages.

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May 1, 2011
160th Anniversary of the first World's Fair






See the interactive version here!


An event that housed the latest and greatest inventions and cultural treasures of its time, the first World's Fair at the Crystal Palace in London was packed with thousands of wonders. This doodle is a sampling of what the visitors saw when they stepped into the glass building. Amongst the trove are the world's largest diamond, a steam engine, high fashion dresses, textiles, indoor trees, and a gigantic fountain. Users can roll over the doodle to zoom in on the scene and catch hidden animations.

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Apr 30, 2011
Queen's Day Netherlands 2011

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Apr 26, 2011
Vallenato Festival 2011






The Vallenato Legend Festival is one of the most important musical festivals in Colombia. The festival features a vallenato music contests for best performer of accordion, caja vallenata and guacharaca, as well as piqueria [battle of lyrics] and best song. It's celebrated every year in April in the city of Valledupar, Department of Cesar.

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April 25, 2010
ANZAC Day 2010 - Australia






Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that broadly commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served". Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps [ANZAC] who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in the First World War [1914–1918].

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April 25, 2003
ANZAC Day 2003 - Australia

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Apr 21, 2003
Earth Day 2003

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Oct 25, 2002
Pablo Picasso's 121st Birthday








Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon [1907], and Guernica [1937], a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

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March 2, 2018
Lantern Festival 2018

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May 20, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 1

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May 21, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 2

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May 22, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 3




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May 23, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 4

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May 24, 2002
Dilbert Google Doodle 2002 - 5

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Mar 6, 2002
Piet Mondrian's 130th Birthday






Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the great artists of the 20th century. He is known for being one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

Mondrian's art was highly utopian and was concerned with a search for universal values and aesthetics. He proclaimed in 1914: "Art is higher than reality and has no direct relation to reality. To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual. We find ourselves in the presence of an abstract art. Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man." His art, however, always remained rooted in nature.

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Nov 14, 2001
Claude Monet's 161st Birthday


Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant [Impression, Sunrise], which was exhibited in 1874 in the first Salon des Refusés [exhibition of rejects] mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris.

Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project which included lily ponds that would become the subjects of his best-known works. He began painting the water lilies in 1899, first in vertical views with a Japanese bridge as a central feature, and later in the series of large-scale paintings that occupied him continuously for the next 20 years of his life.

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April 17, 2021
Celebrating Laura Bassi







Newton’s second law of motion states that an object’s acceleration is dependent on two variables: the force acting on the o bject and its mass. Apply this law to the momentum of women in science, and Italian physicist and professor—Laura Bassi—arises as a primary force for propelling scientific progress forward. On this day in 1732, Bassi successfully defended 49 theses to become one of the first women in Europe to receive a PhD.

Today’s Doodle celebrates Laura Maria Catarina Bassi, who was born in Bologna, Papal States [modern-day Italy] in 1711. A child prodigy, she was debating top academics on the history of philosophy and physics by 20; a rare achievement at a time in which women were largely excluded from higher education.

By 1732, Bassi was a household name in Bologna, and following her thesis defense, she became the first female member of the Bologna Academy of Sciences, one of Italy’s foremost scientific institutions. Due to gender discrimination, her position at the Academy was limited, yet she persisted. Bassi apprenticed under eminent Bologna professors to learn calculus and Newtonian physics, a discipline she spread across Italy for almost 50 years. A lifelong teacher of physics and philosophy, she complemented her education with innovative research and experiments on subjects ranging from electricity to hydraulics.

Bassi continually fought for gender equality in education throughout her trailblazing career; efforts that culminated in 1776 when the Bologna Academy of Sciences appointed her a professor of experimental physics—making Bassi the first woman offered an official teaching position at a European university.

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April 17, 2020
Thank You: Teachers and childcare worker






As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people are coming together to help one another now more than ever. We’re launching a Doodle series to recognize and honor many of those on the front lines.

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April 17, 2015
Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlı’s 125th Birthday






Cevat Şakir Kabaağaçlıwas a Turkish writer of novels, short-stories and essays, as well as being a keen ethnographer and travelogue.

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Apr 15, 2015
Start of Asparagus Season 2015

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Apr 14, 2015
Bangladesh New Year 2015

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Apr 14, 2015
Khmer New Year 2015







Cambodian New Year or Khmer New Year is the traditional celebration of the solar new year in Cambodia. A three-day public holiday in the country, the observance begins on New Year's Day, which usually falls on 13 April or 14 April, which is the end of the harvesting season, when farmers enjoy the fruits of their labor before the rainy season begins.

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Apr 13, 2015
Teacher's Day 2015 [Ecuador]

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Apr 7, 2015
Mother's Day 2015 [Armenia]

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Mar 31, 2015
Seif Wanly’s 109th Birthday





Our doodle in the Middle East for Seif Wanly’s 109th birthday is inspired by one of this Egyptian painter's untitled pieces of work.

He introduced modern art to Egypt after studying at the studio of the Italian artist Otorino Becchi. In 1942 he set up his own studio with his brother Adham Wanly and together they participated in more than 17 exhibitions, notably in the Biennale of Venice and in São Paulo, Brazil. In the late 1950s, Wanly travelled to Nubia to produce a series of paintings and drawings portraying life in Upper Egypt for a governmental project to document culture and conditions prior to the relocation that occurred to enable construction of the Aswan High Dam. Today an entire floor of the Mahmoud Said Museum in Alexandria is dedicated to Seif and Adham Wanly.

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Mar 31, 2015
126th Anniversary of the public opening of the Eiffel Tower






The Eiffel Tower is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

Locally nicknamed "La dame de fer" [French for "Iron Lady"], it was constructed from 1887 to 1889 as the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair and was initially criticised by some of France's leading artists and intellectuals for its design, but it has become a global cultural icon of France and one of the most recognisable structures in the world. The Eiffel Tower is the most-visited paid monument in the world; 6.91 million people ascended it in 2015.

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April 13, 2020

Thank You: Doctors, nurses, and medical workers [April 13]





As COVID-19 continues to impact communities around the world, people are coming together to help one another now more than ever.

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Mar 27, 2015

Tashiro Furukawa’s 170th Birthday









To celebrate Tashiro Furukawa's 170th birthday, students sign "Google" in both his original sign language, and the modern fingerspelling it evolved into.

Tashiro Furukawa was a pioneer in blind and deaf education in Japan. He was a schoolteacher whose many contributions to education included opening the Blind and Deaf School in 1878, which is still opened to students to this day.

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Mar 26, 2015
Hwang Sun-won’s 100th Birthday






Hwang Sun-wŏn was a Korean short story writer, novelist, and poet.

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Mar 23, 2015
Emmy Noether's 133rd Birthday







Emmy Noether was no ordinary person...need proof? How many people do you know can count Albert Einstein as a fan of their work? The legendary physicist once referred to Noether as, “The most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced,” a fitting endorsement for a mathematician who made groundbreaking contributions to the fields of abstract algebra and theoretical physics, all the while overcoming deep seated sexism in her line of work. For Noether’s 133rd birthday, I thought it would be best to highlight the mathematician's numerous accomplishments and shine a light on the influence Noether had on the world.

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Mar 21, 2015
First Day of Fall 2015 [Southern Hemisphere]

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Mar 21, 2015
First Day of Spring 2015 [CY, FI, GR, JP, KR, TR, CN, HK, TW]

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Mar 20, 2015
First Day of Spring 2015/Solar Eclipse

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Mar 20, 2015
First Day of Spring 2015 [Northern Hemisphere]

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Mar 15, 2015
Shadi Abdel Salam’s 85th Birthday






Shadi Abdel Salam was an Egyptian film director, screenwriter and costume and set designer.

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Jun 7, 2019
2019 Women's World Cup - Day 1








The 2019 Women’s World Cup kicks off today in France! Today’s Doodle celebrates the eighth edition of the tournament with a collage of characters from our upcoming series of Doodles by guest artists representing each of the competing countries. Each Doodle will capture the local excitement of the World Cup competition as well as what soccer means to the guest artist personally.

Over the next month, players from the national teams of 24 countries will compete, with the final match in the biggest Women’s World Cup yet taking place on July 7th in Lyon, France. No one is more excited than ettie the French poussin, this year’s official mascot!

Seven teams will be making their eighth consecutive appearance in the Women’s World Cup, including the American team, who return as defending champions looking to win their fourth title this year. Four teams will be making their Women’s World Cup debut in 2019: Chile, Scotland, South Africa, and Jamaica—the first Caribbean team ever to qualify.

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Jun 11, 2019
2019 Women's World Cup - Day 5